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    Left-Wing Environmentalists Score Another Victory in Their Jihad Against Energy
    President Joe Biden has pledged to reduce carbon emissions to “net zero” in the U.S. electricity sector by 2035. This fantastical plan is, we are told, advancing along two tracks simultaneously. On one side is a systematic reduction of fossil fuel usage; on the other, a push to deploy renewable energy substitutes. Of course, the…
    Mario Loyola
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    Biden’s Energy Policies Undermine US Environmental Leadership
    At the start of the year, President Joe Biden announced an indefinite ban on liquified natural gas exports (LNG) out of supposed concern for the environment. The U.S., however, is the leading producer of oil and natural gas and also the leading exporter of LNG. So, ironically, in pausing LNG exports in an effort to…
    Rep. Ron Estes
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    In California, Newsom’s Energy Experiment Goes Awry
    This Earth Day, which falls on Monday, California residents must be glad that their state accounts for less than 1% of the greenhouse gas emissions of the top 50 countries. Yet Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, still wants to achieve 100% net-zero carbon electricity by 2045. With the highest effective poverty rate in America and some of the nation’s highest electricity costs, Newsom’s top priority…
    Miles Pollard | Hope Canlas
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    On Earth Day, EPA Pushes Truck Rule That Will Hurt Workers and Businesses, Not Help Planet
    On this Earth Day, the Environmental Protection Agency is celebrating its new emissions standard for heavy-duty trucks as a triumph for the environment. The irony is, this policy will do nothing for our planet, but it will inflict severe economic damage on hardworking Americans. The EPA’s latest rule, while not explicitly mandating production of electric-powered…
    Andrew Weiss
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    Biden’s Ill-Advised Alaska Oil Ban Bodes Continued Pain at Pump
    Earth Day is Monday, and once again President Joe Biden is putting the American people last and environmentalists first with Friday’s actions making swaths of Alaska off limits to the development of oil, natural gas, and critical minerals.   America’s air is getting cleaner every year, and carbon emissions have declined by 1,000 million metric…
    Diana Furchtgott-Roth
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    A Story of the Soil and the Soul
    Hard work, passion, virtue, and true grit earmark the American heartland. Anecdotes, generation-spanning farm families, and crop innovations speak volumes. They are all children of agriculture. Farming teaches faith in God, food cultivation, animal husbandry, the value of love, the richness of relationships, and the growth of character. Farming offers time for reflection—an Aristotelian balance…
    Armstrong Williams
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    Researchers Fault EPA for Resisting Efforts to Verify Accuracy of Computer Models on Methane
    The Environmental Protection Agency should withdraw and reissue a proposed rule regulating methane emissions because it hasn’t provided enough information to verify the computer modeling behind it, Heritage Foundation researchers say.  By violating the modeling requirements in the Clean Air Act, the federal law designed to reduce air pollution, EPA is operating under a double…
    Kevin Mooney
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    ‘Only the Beginning’: European Court Rules Government Protection From Climate Change Is a Human Right
    The European Court of Human Rights sided with a group of female senior citizens who had sued its government over its perceived failures to sufficiently address climate change on human rights grounds, according to The Wall Street Journal. A group of more than 2,000 Swiss women over the age of 64 alleged that the Swiss government’s climate…
    Nick Pope
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    Distracted By Climate Change? Former Trump Transportation Official Weighs in on Bridge Collapse
    What will be the long-term impact of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, Tuesday? What industries will be affected and how? And who in the U.S. supervises ship safety—and are they prioritizing safety ahead of issues like climate change? Steve Bradbury, who formerly served as acting deputy secretary of the…
    Brian Gottstein
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    Enviros Cheered NY for Shutting Down a Nuke Plant. Then Greenhouse Gas Emissions Jumped.
    Environmental activists celebrated the closure of a key nuclear power facility in New York state, but the state’s power-sector emissions have increased in the years since the plant shuttered. State officials finally closed the Indian Point nuclear facility in 2021, a development that climate activist groups commended because of purported safety and environmental risks posed by it. However, about…
    Nick Pope
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    US Auto Industry Faces Grim Future as Biden’s EPA Sets EV Mandates
    Not since Prohibition has the federal government sought to ban a product as popular as the internal combustion engine. This week, the Environmental Protection Agency released its final emissions standards rule, requiring that 70% of new vehicle sales be pure battery-powered electric or hybrids by 2032. Prohibition was a disaster and ended 13 years after…
    Diana Furchtgott-Roth
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    Easy Way to Save $27 Billion: Repeal Greenhouse Gas Slush Fund That Picks Winners and Losers
    The House Energy and Commerce Committee is set to vote this week on the possible repeal of the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which hasn’t been distributed yet. That taxpayer-funded giveaway to the ailing solar industry and environmental nongovernmental organizations lacks both sufficient accountability and utility. The fund is structured to pick winners and…
    Miles Pollard
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    Biden’s Proposed 15-Fold Price Hike to Drill on Federal Land Threatens US Energy Dominance
    President Joe Biden attacks U.S. corporations for raising prices, but a new proposed regulation from the Bureau of Land Management would make it more difficult and expensive to produce oil and gas on federal lands, raising the price of American oil and gas—and increasing inflation. That’s why Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., has sponsored a bill…
    Andrew Weiss
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    GREEN GRIFT: Renewable Energy’s Inefficiencies, Subsidies for Rich
    “We’re building a clean energy future,” says President Joe Biden. Who is “we”? Well, you pay for it. He and his “green” cronies do most of the building. Lately, they’re pouring more of your money into “renewable energy.” They promise to give us “carbon-free power” from the sun and wind. My new video illustrates some…
    John Stossel
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    International Coalition Assembles to Battle Gender Ideology
    An international coalition of diplomats, researchers, and thinkers gathered Tuesday in Washington, D.C., to address the “infusion of gender ideology” into domestic and foreign policy and international affairs. Attendees traveled from Hungary, Mexico, Spain, Poland, Italy, Brazil, and Canada to discuss their concerns about radical gender ideology in their own countries, including the promotion of…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Here’s How Las Vegas Cracked Down on Sex Trafficking During Super Bowl
    Police investigated over 400 cases related to human trafficking during Super Bowl week in Las Vegas, authorities said.   Cases involved pandering, adult and minor sex trafficking, and solicitation attempts (known also as “John” arrests), Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill said Tuesday during a town hall.   Las Vegas logged 12 confirmed arrests for human…
    Noah Slayter
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    Why Climate Activists’ Push for Renewable Energy May Backfire
    Renewables such as wind and solar are intermittent and largely unpredictable energy sources, with rapid swings in output from one minute to the next. This creates major challenges for operators of the nation’s electricity grid, because supply must equal demand, and the supply “curve” in a given area never tracks the output from intermittent renewable…
    Mario Loyola
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    Dems’ Energy Permitting Reform Bill Includes Billions for Eco-Activist Groups
    A Democrat-backed permitting reform bill unveiled in December would hand out billions in grants for eco-activist nonprofits to conduct environmental reviews on green government projects. Nonprofit organizations, localities, and Native American tribes would be able to apply for $500 million in grants each fiscal year starting in 2024 through 2029, as a part of the Clean Electricity…
    Will Kessler
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    Electric Vehicle Mandates Are Coming, but Are EVs Even Practical in Cold-Weather States?
    In the lot of Eau Claire, Wisconsin’s, local Ford dealership, dominated by an impressive lineup of F-150 pickup trucks and SUVs, I asked the salesman, Joe, about buying an electric vehicle. It turns out that not many EVs are sold in Eau Claire. Joe told me that he typically sells about one or two electric…
    Andrew Weiss
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    Should We Be Concerned Over Climate Change?
    The climate is changing, but is the change cause for concern?  “There are natural climate cycles, which are normal,” research scientist Roy Spencer says, adding that “If you move beyond the temperature to things like storminess, you know, hurricane activity, there have been no demonstrable, long-term changes in anything other than a modest, relatively benign…
    Virginia Allen
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